Talentless hacks just try to shock you.<\/a><\/p>\nTo be sure, good artists will make use of shock in their palette of tricks. Shakespeare had not problem with it (see \u201cTitus Andronicus\u201d). But a hack pretty much only knows how to shock. So bores like Lady Gaga just keep trying to figure out new ways to make people gasp or feel offended. It\u2019s what a culture addicted to mere thrills winds up with: increasing the dose in order to compensate for the growing numbness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talented artists move you. Talentless hacks just try to shock you. To be sure, good artists will make use of shock in their palette of tricks. Shakespeare had not problem with it (see \u201cTitus Andronicus\u201d). But a hack pretty much only knows how to shock. So bores like Lady Gaga just keep trying to figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-46127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-at-the-movies"],"yoast_head":"\n
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